You're allowed to feel broken while you're healing. That doesn't mean you'll stay broken.

Nobody talks about how PTSD makes you unable to focus on anything but potential threats.

A truly healed person can rest without feeling lazy.

Your nervous system doesn't care about logic.

You're allowed to let relationships go that won't survive your healing.

The 5-Step Process to Keep Survivors Stuck: 1) Pathologize normal responses, 2) Medicate symptoms, 3) Avoid processing trauma, 4) Create dependency, 5) Profit from chronic illness

Nobody talks about how PTSD makes you emotionally unavailable to your children when they need you most.

Nobody talks about how PTSD makes you feel sensations that aren't actually happening.

Saying no without reasons is a boundary, not being difficult.

Nobody talks about how PTSD makes you unable to celebrate your own achievements because joy feels dangerous.

You have PTSD. You don't have to BE PTSD.

Nobody talks about how PTSD makes you overthink the simplest interactions.

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This is your sign to believe that slow progress is still progress.

Not antisocial. Conserving energy from constant threat detection.